"The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us."

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Source : David W. Augsburger (1992). “Conflict Mediation Across Cultures: Pathways and Patterns”, p.229, Westminster John Knox Press

David W Augsburger

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“I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.”
“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”
“... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.”
“Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.”
“Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.”

Source : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.145, Diversion Books
“The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.”
“Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.”

Source : How to Be an Alien (1946)
“My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.”

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